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We the Media

I just wrote a huge post about how cool We The Media is, seeing as I had just finished it, and for some reason Firefox closed without warning, and I lost it all. It was a good post too. I alliterated about Quality Blogs, Signal-to-Noise ratios in the blogosphere, how we trust others to tell us about news, how relatively low-usefulness live journals have replaced animated-gif-laden ‘personal home pages’, how RSS works, FeedDemon, and how RSS is being utilised by cool services like Flickr and Del.icio.us to revolutionise how we digest new content. But it’s all gone. I’m sad now. Go read We The Media for free online, or buy it from Amazon. Then go get FeedDemon and digest yourself some quality news feeds like BoingBoing, Wired News, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and to the lesser extent Webfroot, and the thousands of feeds made available by great writers about interesting subjects.

If you have any questions about any of what I wrote about and lost, please ask me and I’ll gladly alliterate about anything I mentioned 🙂

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Glutnix was in Breakpoint City

Recently I got invited to Gmail, Google’s new 1GB webmail service, Thanks to Pozz. A couple of days ago I got my Gmail invites, and gave one to my brother, a couple of people who wanted them, and gave one away on Webfroot.

Then I saw Brian Emling, cartoonist of Breakpoint City, asking for a Gmail account on his site. So I gave him one. So then he did this 😀 Cheers Brian! Go read his comic 😀

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Geek vs Nerd

I’ve been getting into this comic Angel Moxie. Yeah, it’s pretty cutesie, but I dunno, it’s like the Powerpuff Girls — There’s something to be said about girls with super and/or magical powers, and that is that they rock. If you want to read it, start now – you’ll plow through the entire 200 strips in under a few hours. Cool story. Riley reminds me of myself in a sort of freaky way, freaky mainly because she’s female. Mind you… 😉

Anyway, as embarrased as I might be to share that I like both Angel Moxie and the Powerpuff Girls is to share these two episodes with you which help shed some light on the whole Geek vs Nerd debate that has been going on the last 1000 years or so.

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Amazon.com and the (inevitable) book review

Working for a salary has its benefits. One of them, namely, is professional development. I recently bought Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman along with Eric Meyer on CSS by said Eric Meyer, all with money set aside by my company for professional development. YMMV.

I bought these books with the company credit card on Amazon on June 10th. Amazon gave me an estimate of delivery, due by June 27th at the latest. Yesterday I still hadn’t recieved the books. So I emailed Amazon and they agreed to re-send the books at no extra charge. (On a side note, this process was surprisingly human, but dripped with corporate stalety.). So what happens today? Said books arrive. I swiftly cancel the replacement books and all is well. I don’t blame Amazon, but I do blame the slow carrier I chose to use from Amazon’s choices.

So, I’ve read up to the third chapter of Zeldman’s most excellently written guide. It presents a brilliant case to business types for adopting the model he proposes: structural (X)HTML, CSS design and DOM and ECMAscript compatible behaviour. If you’re a web developer or designer, get with the program and read this book! Upskill for the web’s sake! Favorite quote from the book so far? A heading which says “How Do I Code Thee? Let Me Count The Ways.”

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Ever played Boxes?

I just got this book from Mindscapes: 100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper. Some of the games in this book look really fun and challenging. Online Whiteboard anyone?

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